Putting Christianity into Some Manner of Perspective

C.S. Lewis is remembered as a gifted writer who touched the hearts of young and old alike. To those of you who didn’t have the pleasure and honor of reading “The Chronicles of Narnia” with your child, only to have the both of you bawling like babies at the end, I’d have to say that you might have missed something.

More notably, however, Lewis is among a slim minority of intellectuals who migrated from atheism into Christianity, as opposed to the other way around.

The point he makes here is valid, to a point.  I’d have been more impressed had he mentioned that “the importance of Christianity” applies equally to that of Islam, Judaism, and the other hundreds of other religions that exist around the globe as we speak, and to the many thousands of others that existed since humankind came on the scene over the last 200,000 years.

No one seems to be too upset about the fates of Odin, Thor, Zeus, and the uncountable number of other celestial greats that now exist only in the vast god-graveyard, whose deification lies only in human fear and ignorance.

In any case, a great man was Lewis.